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- SimaPro Life Cycle Assessment software - A tool to perform professional life cycle assessment (LCA) studies. It comes with a large database and a number of impact assessment methods.
- International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) - Organization brings together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessments worldwide. Find organization information, EIA resources, and links to related sites.
- PRe Consultants: Life Cycle Impact Assessment methodology - Netherlands-based consultancy specialized in the development of impact assessment methods for LCA. Site describes and documents the Eco-indicator 99 methodology.
- Burchell, Robert - Professor at the Center for Urban Policy Research, is the author of 25 books and more than 50 articles, is an expert on fiscal impact analysis, land-use development and regulation, and housing policy. Dr. Burchell co-authored the Development Impact Assessment Handbook for The Urban Land Institute. (Books: The Fiscal Impact Hand-book; The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis; The Adaptive Reuse Handbook; The Environmental Impact Handbook).
- Envest : Green Building Design Software - Software tool for estimating the lifecycle environmental impacts of a building from the early design stage. Considers the environmental impacts of: materials used during construction; resources consumed over the building's life.
- EIAxpert: rule-based screening-level EIA - Expert system software for environmental impact assessment. Intended for pre-feasibility screening evaluations. Environmental Software and Services GmbH.
- GETS - Geomorphology, Environmental Impact Assessment and Transportation Systems - Methods, results, metadata, web maps, and other resources from a European research network for the application of geomorphology and EIA to transportation systems.
- CEQ NEPA Net - Council on Environmental Quality's central information hub for the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act and the federal environmental impact assessment process, including environmental impact statements.
- Considering Cumulative Effects - Guidance on environmental impact assessment, from U.S. Council on Environmental Quality that is outlined in the National Environmental Policy Act. In PDF format.
- eiolca.net - Free Life Cycle Assessment on the Internet - Uses 1992 input-output table of US economy to show economic and environmental effects of producing 500 commodities. Environmental impacts of production are expressed in terms of Conventional Pollutants, Greenhouse Gases, Toxic Chemicals, and other releases.
Wikipedia Articles
- Environmental impact assessment - An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is an assessment of the likely influence a project may have on the environment. “Environmental Impact Assessment can be defined as: The process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made.
- Four-Step Impact Assessment - The Four-Step Impact Assessment is an academic framework initiated and published by the late Jonathan Mann and colleagues at the Francouis-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. The assessment takes into account the negotiation of objectives between human rights and public health.
- Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context - The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context is a UNECE convention signed in Espoo, Finland in 1991 that entered into force in 1997. It was instrumental in the creation of the Strategic Environmental Assessment.
- Health Impact Assessment - Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is defined as "a combination of procedures, methods and tools by
- Social impact assessment - Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions.